Word: xavier
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Xavier at Rhode Isl., ESPN2...
...Conn., Wednesday 16. Michigan State 17-4 Next at Illinois, Thursday 17. Mississippi 15-5 Next at Vanderbilt, Wednesday 18. Michigan 17-7 Next vs. Ohio State, Wednesday 19. Syracuse 17-5 Next at Miami, Tuesday 20. Cincinnati 17-5 Next at St. Louis, Thursday 21. Xavier 15-6 Lost to No. 23 UMass 73-62 22. Geo. Washington 20-3 Next vs. Rhode Island, Tuesday 23. UMass 17-6 Beat No. 21 Xavier 73-62 24. Iowa 16-7 Next vs. Minnesota, Thursday 25. Maryland 14-7 Next vs. N.C. State, Wednesday
...Mayor Xavier Suarez isn't pleased with the title, and for weeks he has threatened to sue Hiaasen and his paper, the Miami Herald. Last week, to emphasize his pique, Suarez phoned the Herald's advertising manager and left another warning on voice mail: "I note that we are subsidizing you and your newspaper with ads related to official notices of the city," Suarez growled. Echoing a bit of cold war lingo, he then urged the manager to "tell your maximum leader of the free world for the publishing company [translation: Herald president Joe Natoli] to be a lot nicer...
...Young Thundering Herd," as Lengyel labeled it, did win two games that season, the first a miraculous 15-13 win over Xavier in the second game of the year. But Marshall settled into a perfectly understandable futility after that '71 season. Sonny Randle, the great NFL receiver, arrived in 1979 to breathe fire into the program, and while he did lay the foundation for the future, he left Marshall after winning 12 games and losing 42 in five seasons. In 1984 the team had its first winning season in 20 years, and the Herd hasn't had a losing season...
...doesn't like to talk about that night. Who would? But he remembers. Here is a man, after all, who casually mentions that the play he called from the press box to beat Xavier in the second game of the '71 season was a "2-13 bootleg screen" from quarterback Reggie Oliver, clear across the field to Terry Gardner...